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Neil Robertson stormed to a 13-7 win over Mark Allen at the Dafabet World Championship – but just missed out on a piece of snooker history. World number one Robertson looked in danger of a second round exit at the Crucible when he trailed 7-6 last night, but he fought […]
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Dominic Dale reached the quarter-finals of the Dafabet World Championship for the first time since 2000 with a resounding 13-4 win over Michael Wasley. Welshman Dale did the damage in the first two sessions with top breaks of 74, 75, 59, 106, 78, 89 and 62, taking the first session 7-1 […]
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Written by: Markus Noe Literary giant Mordecai Richler left us 13 years ago, however his work has lived on and it continues to impact his readers to this day. Patrick Guigui, President of Snooker Canada, was moved to such an extent by Richler’s book On Snooker when he read it two years […]
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Please note that all scores can be seen at http://www.snookerquebec.ca/draw.htm High Run Bob Chaperon 127
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Great News! The game of snooker and the Richler Cup has been mentioned in the largest newspaper in Canada. What makes it even better is that it is a full page article! Danile Richler, Mordecai’s son, has written a wonderful article and the Globe and Mail has published it this […]
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Mordecai Richler being interviewed by his son, Daniel, who will be presenting the trophy to this year’s Richler Cup “Many people don’t know that Mordecai Richler was a snooker fan,” says Patrick Guigui, President of Snooker Canada, “but he had a real passion. Reading his book, On Snooker, I was […]
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Written By: Daniel Richler Special to The Globe and Mail In 1983, not long after our parents bought a cottage overlooking Lake Memphremagog in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, the family enjoyed a massive upgrade in the shape of one regulation-size, oak snooker table – in its own purpose-built room whose floor-to-ceiling […]
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The reason the majority of people who play any game on a Billiard Table remain mediocre and never reach their true potential, is because they have never been coached and are therefore not aware of the” Two Unknowns” 1, Was the cue ball struck correctly? 2. Was […]
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